David Oyelowo, the soulful actor who played Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma a few years ago, deserves mainstream success if he wants it, and tossing...

A tough, beautiful urban fairy tale by Mexican writer-director Issa López, Tigers Are Not Afraid is a perfect example of how genre films can help...

When the forces of the universe collide and you have the good fortune to approach the right piece of art at the right age, something magical happens....

Gerard Butler is not good at anything, and it's time we stopped trying to make him be. He uses an American accent in almost every movie, yet is no...

The rich sure do love their rituals, huh? That’s something that Ready or Not heroine Grace (Samara Weaving) finds out incredibly early on in her...

I'll tell you what, the only thing a critic enjoys more than a good movie is a good movie that's a surprise. The Angry Birds Movie (2016) was a...

Summer 2019’s incredibly claustrophobic B-movie creature features are all about doubling — or even tripling — down on danger. First, there was...

Remember Elizabethtown? If not, let me refresh your memory. Back in 2005, Cameron Crowe’s would-be opus was widely panned by critics and audiences...

The characters in Good Boys were born the year Superbad came out (2007), so they probably don't realize they're living in a remake of it. The girls...

Though Alvin Schwartz's books were published between 1981 and 1991 and had timeless settings, the movie version of Scary Stories to Tell in the...

Life is a lot like racing cars, as you know if you read Garth Stein's dependably sappy novel The Art of Racing in the Rain. The movie version,...

Here’s the thing about movie endings that are intentionally left open to interpretation: They only work if the audience leaves the theater...

Making a live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon’s long-running animated series Dora the Explorer was always going to be a bit tricky. The...

YouTube star Logan Paul assembled so many fellow YouTube stars to make Airplane Mode that it would be genuinely impressive if they were anyone but...

Less a horror film and more a carnival-style hall of mirrors, writer-director Tilman Singer’s festival hit Luz is an elaborate maze-like debut...